AH
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Full transparency, we prefer leaders who actually read the bill before voting on it.
Mike 
@georgetakei how is she in office? I just can't
Rasmus Lindegaard@codemonkeymike @georgetakei how will she know if that part is in it? She obviously does not do her job reading the paperwork, which is arguably the more important part
DavidLol how she just admits she's doing her job poorly and yet keeps her job
Chris 
@georgetakei when can we expect her resignation, since she's incapable of fulfilling the basic duties of her job?
Galad@georgetakei Wait… She can read?
Cosmic LibrarianMore like opaque...🙄
Baron Vonskinnback@georgetakei somebody is a right little lying piece of shit who wants to have her cake and eat it, she can go get fucked, she can't be allowed to wash our hands of any responsibility, which is exactly what this spineless coward will try to do...
donald_brady@georgetakei Maybe she's just putting out the call to the lobbyists to buy her vote? She's all about insider trading and growing her wealth so she's not completely bat shit / useless.
Dan@georgetakei they never seem to, do they?
Tom BortelsI hate to seemingly defend her - but the bill was over 1000 pages. I bet 20 people actually read it - the rest read summaries from their assistant who used an AI and lied about it.
The only difference here is she was dumb enough to admit it. I kinda applaud any hint of honesty in politics, it's so rare. Dumb but honest is a step up.
The real issue is rushing passage of giant bills. Part of me says omnibus-type bills should be forbidden - if you have 200 different bits of legislation - pass 200 laws. Yes that might slow things down - that's a feature.
The Squeakaphelagic Zone@tbortels @georgetakei yeah but like, her job is to read it. 1000 pages yeah but she gets a six figure salary, she could at least actually, I don't know, work or something.
I understand. But if you want to call anyone out on this - fair's fair, you gotta call them all out, or at least the ones who voted for it.
We can and should rightly be mad at anyone, on either side, who votes yes on a bill they couldn't be bothered to read. At 1,116 pages (I looked it up) - that's 95% of them...
This all happened post 9-11 with the Patriot act - which was only 352 pages, less than a third the size of this. Signed in a panic, and we paid for that for years, with legislators showing surprise at some of the things in it after the fact. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Courtney (moved to dads.cool)@tbortels @georgetakei yeah this was my impression as well -- the real naivete is thinking any lawmakers are reading bills before they vote on them. Most bills are written by lobbying groups, are enormous, and there's no way for politicians to read them and do any other part of their job. That's why they have staffers read and summarize. I appreciate that she didn't double down, tbh.
François @JuraThey gave her a version for Dummies with one sentence: "owning the libs".
I hope at least she will shut up for a while and learn how to read English as well as some of the immigrants she helped to expel.
Elizabeth Campbell It's Me@georgetakei she had one job...
cmacinfoMore than the stupidity and carelessness in not reading legislation, it is the proud pretentious, pompous posturing they project when they acknowledge their failure with no assurances that next time they might actually do perform their duties. Idiocracy looks more and more like a documentary day by day.
Draken BlackKnight@georgetakei
Well I don't fucking want a "leader." I want an elected official who knows they're a civil SERVANT who will be held accountable for even the slightest fuck-up.
Well I don't fucking want a "leader." I want an elected official who knows they're a civil SERVANT who will be held accountable for even the slightest fuck-up.
Travis@georgetakei I’d be happy if should could read at all
David O'Donnell@georgetakei This assumes that she can actually read and comprehend English… which is a big assumption.
@georgetakei THINK 3rd Party victims (passengers, pedestrians...) of autonomous cars. This is a line that should not be crossed.
Toni Aittoniemi@georgetakei You had one job.
Of course she is probably lying.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@georgetakei
This is also an effect of the US game of cramming completely unrelated clauses into every bill. In UK, Acts of Parliament inevitably address just a single issue.
This is also an effect of the US game of cramming completely unrelated clauses into every bill. In UK, Acts of Parliament inevitably address just a single issue.
@georgetakei
That assumes that MTG can actually read...
That assumes that MTG can actually read...
Don Weaver@georgetakei what a dangerous and embarrassing flock of dumbfucks.
enderman0125 
@georgetakei You know the bill is bad when even MTG opposes it
Thumper ➡️TFF➡️LVFC@georgetakei I don't believe for a minute she didn't know it was in there. This is just another tactic. Vote for what you want, pretend you didn't know about everything else you voted for. If there isn't severe backlash for this, the next bill will headline 'smaller government' and they'll all be shocked that it ended voting rights for half the country.